Troy Taylor [merged]

[Infamy]

How can we long term injury list him if he isn't injured

Pretty sure we can, more like an "Inactive" list, which means they simply cannot play for at least 8 weeks

[Francois Jackson]

i blame no one but our club for failing yet another Indigenous boy. What the hell is wrong with us

There is nothing wrong with us.
To say the club has failing another indigenous boy is just rubbish we have bent other backward sfor this boy and he would be injail now if it was not for us. So get off your high horse.
By the way which other kids have we failed?
The kid has no idea what he wants to do and has gone walk about again.

After all there is a reason he was taken late in the draft.

how do you explain within 2 months we have had 2 players go walk about. Roberts being the other.

Wasnt he living on his own before Morton took him under his wing. Great move that one.

Facts are we have had 2 great indigenous boys over the last 30 years. The rest have gone walk about or havent been that good.

[TigerLand]

i blame no one but our club for failing yet another Indigenous boy. What the hell is wrong with us

There is nothing wrong with us.
To say the club has failing another indigenous boy is just rubbish we have bent other backward sfor this boy and he would be injail now if it was not for us. So get off your high horse.
By the way which other kids have we failed?
The kid has no idea what he wants to do and has gone walk about again.

After all there is a reason he was taken late in the draft.

how do you explain within 2 months we have had 2 players go walk about. Roberts being the other.

Wasnt he living on his own before Morton took him under his wing. Great move that one.

Facts are we have had 2 great indigenous boys over the last 30 years. The rest have gone walk about or havent been that good.

Reasonably naive post daniel.

There are plenty of players that give up and can't handle football life, indigenous or not.

Both players arent in the best 22. Alot of the 'going home' stories are on the back of players thinking they should be playing AFL instead of reserves and are sick of trying to make it and just give up. Relton believed he would play 22 games at Richmond. He played a couple and was clearly not upto it, so he gave up. Troy maybe in the same boat, wants to play Senior footy but isn't willing to do the extra hard work.

Our other Indigenous boys Tambling and JON were cut and traded. Edwards is still playing and arguably is in our best 22.

None are Cyril Riolis or Liam Jurrahs but hardly the clubs fault that a couple of Indigenous boys fail to make the grade and quit.

[TigerLand]

Takes a real wanker to want a kid to fail jackstar
You are a proper tool

mate, i dont want anyone to fail
reality is that his kicking is suspect and doesnt want to work hard enough.
Footy clubs have to be "brutal "' to succeed.
Similar to what Collingwood did with Chris Egan, straight out the door.
No room for passengers on lists.
Sorry  if that offends people, but bad luck, we aint a charity.
You shouldnt find the RFC under C for Charitys in the yellow pages.

Jackstar is right, however the delivery could be posted better.

The kid just needs to get into his head that he has the chance to have the next 10-12 years as a footballer not everything has to come at once and be patient.

[bojangles17]

he has no long term future in melbourne Im afraid, would appear to me his personal issues seem overwhelming compared to the lure of a career as an elite athlete, shame but it happens cut him loose and move on

[Judge Roughneck]

Fcking prick.

[Dubstep Dookie]

If we cut him Collingwood will pick him up straight away

Yep, this was the first thing that popped into my head when I heard the news. They were super keen on him in that years draft.

[RedanTiger]

i blame no one but our club for failing yet another Indigenous boy. What the hell is wrong with us

There is nothing wrong with us.
To say the club has failing another indigenous boy is just rubbish we have bent other backward sfor this boy and he would be injail now if it was not for us. So get off your high horse.
By the way which other kids have we failed?The kid has no idea what he wants to do and has gone walk about again.
After all there is a reason he was taken late in the draft.

Depends how far you want to go back. Think this is our biggest problem - welfare and development, which feeds the culture of the club.
Players I think we have failed since 2000:
Krak, McGrath, Rodan, Sipthorp, Schulz, Weller, Raines, Hartigan, Roach, Gilmore, Limbach, Polo, Pattison, Meyer, Tambling, Humm, Casserley, Hughes, JON, Collins, Peterson, Collard, Putt, Roberts, Taylor, Gilligan.....
Think all those players could have made the grade but did not get the support to reach their peak.
    
And this is the thing that freaks me about the FTF.
First we deal with the oval, then the TPP, then the seconds team and lastly the area of development (if we have any money left for that).
We are losing players and failing to develop others and we worry about the surface of Punt Road. Scary prioritizing.

[jackstar is back again]

footy clubs need to be brutal
No passengers allowed

[smasha]

I bet you if Richmond had just won a flag,he wouldn't have left.

We have a bad image and it bloody will not improve until we start winning bloody games and EARN RESPECT from players.

Last week 14 points in front,everything to play for,a chance of 5 k extra members,more money coming into the FTF and we throw the game away.

stuff.

I say give the bloke another chance.

At least we can protect our investment.

[Gigantor]

jack has a point..our club needs to tuffen up here.

[tony_montana]

stiff skata,

cya!

If the club is serious about getting better they will pull together and cut loose anyone who isnt 100% committed to the cause Troy obviously isnt. The kids obviously got issues, we've helped out plenty but it's just not going to work, cya later and good luck. We've got a couple of kids on the rookie list that would take a bullet for their chance to make an AFL list, give em a go and be done with it. Send a msg to the playing list we need to pull together, all in or all out no grey areas, your either in or eff off!

[WilliamPowell]

how do you explain within 2 months we have had 2 players go walk about. Roberts being the other.

Newsflash for you daniel;

1. He didn't walk out - FACT
2. He was released in July/August 2010 by the club - which btw the majority on here thought was the right call by the club  

Wasnt he living on his own before Morton took him under his wing. Great move that one.

NO he wasn't. He was with a host family when he first came to Melb and he moved out to move in with Mitch

But hey don't let a few facts get in the way of a good rant  

And btw I find it funny how everyone is carrying on about this and what the club should do when none of us have a clue as to what the personal reasons are....

Would love to know what would be deemed to be acceptable personal reasons for people on here

Isn't anyone going to answer this one  

Lot of assuming going on here as to why he has asked to be allowed to go home.

Reality is no one here knows the reasons and until we do the ranting is based on guess work

[Willy]

poo effort, Troy.
i supported you after the last runaway, but not this time. How about repaying the club that has kept you out of the slammer and given you the opportunity to set yourself and your family up for life?
'Cultural issues' my ass.
This is why he sliped so low in the draft. Foolish and lazy.

I can see it now, he'l bugger off for a couple of years, and then come back and dominate for effing Collingwood.  

[jackstar is back again]

poo effort, Troy.
i supported you after the last runaway, but not this time. How about repaying the club that has kept you out of the slammer and given you the opportunity to set yourself and your family up for life?
'Cultural issues' my ass.
This is why he sliped so low in the draft. Foolish and lazy.

I can see it now, he'l bugger off for a couple of years, and then come back and dominate for effing Collingwood.  

agree, although he wont come back.
most other clubs knew about the issues, thus he went late in the draft, Total waste of a pick